After leaving her home town of Port Kaituma, North West District (NWD) with much uncertainty 12 years ago, Lorena Adams has managed to establish a small business in Hill Foot, Soesdyke/Linden Highway and has a comfortable home.

The mother of six related that all her children are grown except for two, who still live with her to date.

Adams has made her home and surrounding to her liking, plants, trees, flowers and a vegetable garden in her back yard for the kitchen.

Her house, a one-flat concrete structure sits on a hill and to prevent erosion she has planted flowers and other plants in used tyres to beautify the place and secure her foundation.

Her yard is big and she sued it to plant many trees including citrus and the place is clean and well-kept.

Adams has in her yard wooden chairs with adjoining tables and has a small shop from which she sells beverages and snacks.

“I used to bake and sell pastries but I don’t have the time now to do it because my mother fell and injured her hip and she is in the hospital so I have some running around to do,” she said.

Adams said life is fair in Hill Foot and she tries to stay afloat by doing things to earn.

She is a very friendly woman, who is always up for a quick conversation and is better known as Aunty Lorena in the community.

The Pepperpot Magazine also met Linden Kellman, a local welder, who has his workshop at home and only leaves the village to do outside work or to run errands.

The father of two said he has lived all his wife in Hill Foot and he likes the place because it is peaceful and very quiet.

The 42-year-old added that Hill Foot is a farming community and the people are hard workers.

He had paused from his work for lunch and was in the company of his pets, a dog and a cat.

Meanwhile, in the back street, another villager, Suresh Ram, was relaxing in his hammock.

He is not well, his leg has developed two abscesses and he was expected to return to the hospital for treatment.

He is a local carpenter and sometimes works as a maintenance man with his brother-in-law.

“I have been here for more than 40 years and this place is home for me because I am accustomed to the quietness and the tranquillity of a simple life,” he said.

Ram does some gardening in his own yard and it was evident he likes to plant because his place has a lot of fruits and other trees.

He stated that his parents came from Berbice to settle in Hill Foot when he was just nine years old.

The father of two said his mother was instrumental in acquiring a plot of land for him before she passed away, years ago and for that he is very happy.

“Life here is good because I work to support my family and it is all good we can live in cooperation and peace,” he said.